I am proud to advise a terrific group of graduate students affiliated with Berkeley’s Center on the Politics of Development (see CPD Research Associates here).

Please find below list of students whose dissertations I am advising or have advised (along with their current positions, for students who have already completed the Ph.D.).

Doctoral Committees

Name, Year of Ph.D. (Ph.D. Institution), Current Position (if applicable); *=dissertation chair or co-chair

Anirvan Chowdhury, 2023 (Berkeley), post-doctoral fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard; Assistant Professor, University of Louisville (beginning July 2024)*

Anna Callis, 2023 (Berkeley), post-doctoral fellow, The Center for Inter-American Policy and Research, Tulane University*

Bhumi Purohit, 2022 (Berkeley), Assistant Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown

Catlan Reardon, 2022 (Berkeley), lead researcher, Development Innovation Lab, University of Chicago*

Anustubh Agnihotri, 2022 (Berkeley), Assistant Professor, Ashoka University

Nicholas Kuipers, 2022 (Berkeley), Assistant Professor, Princeton University*

Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, 2021 (Berkeley), Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley (Goldman School of Public Policy)*

Natalia Garbiras-Díaz, 2021 (Berkeley), Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School *

Christopher Carter, 2020 (Berkeley), Assistant Professor, University of Virginia*

Justine Davis, 2020 (Berkeley), Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

Guadalupe Tuñón, 2019 (Berkeley), Assistant Professor, Princeton University*

Mathias Poertner, 2018 (Berkeley), Assistant Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science*

Danny Donghun Choi, 2018 (Berkeley), Assistant Professor, Brown University

Natália Bueno, 2017 (Yale), Assistant Professor, Emory University*

Pia Raffler, 2017 (Yale) , Assistant Professor, Harvard University*

Nikhar Gaikwad, 2017 (Yale), Assistant Professor, Columbia University

Steve Rosenzweig, 2017 (Yale), Assistant Professor, Boston University*

Germán Feierherd, 2016 (Yale), Assistant Professor, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina*

Lucas Novaes, 2016 (Berkeley), Assistant Professor, Insper Institute of Education and Research, São Paulo, Brazil.

Andrew Bertoli, 2016 (Berkeley), Assistant Professor at IE University, Madrid, Spain.

Michael Weaver, 2016 (Yale), Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia

Jason Stearns, 2016 (Yale), Senior Fellow, Center on International Cooperation, NYU

Luis Schiumerini, 2015 (Yale), Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame*

Dawn Teele, 2015 (Yale), Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Malte Lierl, 2015 (Yale), Research Fellow, German Institute for Global and Area Studies*

Selim Erdem Aytaç (Yale), 2014, Associate Professor, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey

Rebecca Nielsen (Yale), 2015, Assistant Professor, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia*

Sarah Pallas, 2015 (School of Public Health, Yale), Post-doctoral fellow, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Rory Truex, 2014 (Yale), Associate Professor, Princeton University*

Erica De Bruin, 2014 (Yale), Assistant Professor, Hamilton College

Cameron Ballard-Rosa, 2014 (Yale), Associate Professor, UNC Chapel Hill

Calvert Jones, 2013 (Yale), Associate Professor, University of Maryland, College Park

Brian Fried, 2013 (Yale), Florence Levy Kay Fellow, Brandeis University

Juan Rebolledo, 2012 (Yale), Ministry of Finance/McKinsey, Mexico

Edwin Camp, 2012 (Yale), Yale Unions

Allison Carnegie, 2012 (Yale), Professor, Columbia University

Xiaobo Lü, 2011 (Yale), Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Sheree Bennett, M.A. 2008 (Yale), International Rescue Committee